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Rights & LegalSince July 24, 2026, the Landlord and Tenant Board's final orders have been publishing to Ontario's Open Data Catalogue — free, no login, monthly updates, with history filling back to December 2021 in phases. It's the biggest transparency shift the rental market has seen in years, and the most misused tool of the fall:
Screening & ApplicationsEvery rental application is a list of questions, and Ontario law has an opinion about all of them: five things are expressly authorized (income, consented credit checks, references, rental history, guarantees — weighed together, never income alone), the Human Rights Code's protected grounds are flatly off-limits, and a
Rights & LegalAdvertising a rental in Ontario is a five-step craft with a legal layer at every step: confirm the unit can lawfully be listed, price it to the market that exists, write and shoot a listing that works, choose platforms deliberately (only one major site is agent-gated), and run enquiries without drowning. This pillar co
Maintenance & RepairsThere's no "mold law" in Ontario — but there doesn't need to be. Mold caused by a building problem (a leak, bad ventilation, water getting in) is the landlord's to fix under the same duty to keep a unit in a good state of repair. This guide draws the responsibility line clearly: what the landlord must remediate (and pa